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The project highlights positive examples of communities as custodians protecting forests from destruction and degradation. Examples and recommendations are presented to global policy making bodies, aid donors and lenders, and the public. |
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Founded in 1993, SDI specializes in communications about environmental aspects of economic development in coastal and tropical forest regions. |
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Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. This book, based on extensive international field research, highlights one solution for preserving this precious resource: empowering local people who depend on the forest for survival. Synthesizing a vast amount of information that has never been brought together in one place, Roger D. Stone and Claudia D'Andrea provide a clearly written and energizing tour of global efforts to empower community-based forest stewards. University of California Press, December 2001 |
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An innovative planning process in St. Mary County, MD, to re-direct the county on the pathway away from costly sprawl and towards environmentally sound integration of development. |
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Each spring, the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital presents a melange of 85+ documentary, animated, feature, experimental, archival and children's films from many lands that have environmental perspectives. |
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A news service focusing on environmentally mindful forms of economic development between the Gulf of Maine and the eastern Caribbean. The Atlantic Coastwatch newsletter is published every two months describing people, places, issues, problems and solutions. Each week Coastal News Nuggets provides 200-300 links to daily news stories and press releases from newspapers, governmental and non-governmental organizations |
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